Wikipedia Science Conference

02

Sep2015

until 03 Sep

London

In partnership with the Wellcome Trust, Wikipedia is hosting a two-day conference, around the intersection of STEM subjects and Wikimedia, on 2nd and 3rd September 2015. This is prompted by the growing interest in Wikipedia, Wikidata, Commons, and other Wikimedia projects as platforms for opening up the scientific process.

Audience

Researchers and educators in STEM subjects

Science communicators

Librarians & other information professionals

Managers & funders of research

Wikipedia/ Wikimedia volunteers and staff

Wikimedia UK's Friendly space policy will apply at the event and there will be trusted individuals on hand with whom you can raise any related issues.

Themes

Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects (including Wikidata, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons...) as platforms for promoting informed public discussion of scientific topics (acknowledging that the public have a curiosity about all sorts of scientific topics, and overwhelmingly use Wikipedia as a starting point to self-educate).

Wikipedia and/or Wikimedia as platforms for research, including citizen science (e.g. the Research portal).